they had 21 or 22 debates. that's going to produce a certain amount of fat checks and they're all going to be about republicans and that's going to skew the numbers. >> there were debates in january. jim's observation is absolutely correct. when i first started fact check, we were getting screams from democrats because so many of the criticisms we had at a time, late in 2003, in the middle of the democratic process, they are all about democrats because george bush was wisely keeping his mouth shut while dick gephardt, howard dean, and others told horrible falsehoods about each other. so you are only criticizing democrats? at the time, that was probably true. i get complaints from republicans when we defend republicans from falsehood said by another. they haven't even read the story. i reject the idea where singling out either party for undue attention. if we were, how come rachel m ,ddow is not bill's biggest fan sometimes and not very factual way, what he has said about liberals. what we do is apply the standa